What would you like to see on TV?

[Charlotte's Controller 195]

I saw the apprentice was restarting and thought why not have a program called The Cabinet. Start off with a group of people professing competence and give them a number of tasks to prove themselves. The  numbers reduce to arrive at a leader.

Just need to find the Lord Sugar figure to headline the show and the BBC to recognise the project.

 

I am not convinced if this would be satire, comedy, reality or politics but think that it is needed for the nation.

 

Can you think of books that need to be serialised, pastimes or sports that need to covered.

 

One more suggestion.

 

Deathlist Candidates - Bring the histories of the candidates to the general population, Effectively obit programming.

 

 

[Charlotte's Controller 195]

The Trump Trials a Conspiracy. A Fox investigation

[JR976evil 906]

Michael McIntyre set on fire 

[arghton 6,745]

Celebrity Big Brother with deposed/former dictators. (Housemates for Season 1 would be Charles Taylor, Mengistu, Omar al-Bashir, Yahya Jammeh, Than Shwe, Raul Castro and Desi Bouterse) and maybe a Naked Big Brother, I would like to see how that'd work. With dictators? Maybe

 

"How are they doing?" a (preferably internationally syndicated) program that follows the daily life of elderly notable people not seen in public for a while. 

[TQR 14,398]

I’m reminded of a Sean Lock skit on Cats Countdown where he pitched ‘Nazi Island’.

 

 

[Youth in Asia 1,087]

Monkey tennis?

[Spade_Cooley 9,530]

Milana Vayntrub and Rachel Bloom topless hugging.

[Grim Up North 3,726]

24 minutes ago, Spade_Cooley said:

Milana Vayntrub and Rachel Bloom topless hugging.

 

The Great British Breast Off perhaps?

 

(yes I know neither of them are British)

[DevonDeathTrip 2,358]

One Man and His God - where representatives from various faiths try and move sheep, only using the power of prayer.

 

(I think this may have been mooted before and I can't claim credit for the idea)

[Youth in Asia 1,087]

Youth hostelling with Dick van Dyke

[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

Escape from the Country

 

A group of 20 somethings are dumped on the North Yorkshire Moors with no mobile phone and only a £10 note and the first person to make it back to the studio (in London (or Leeds if you are kind) is the winner

 

I think BBC3

[JR976evil 906]

1 hour ago, Bibliogryphon said:

Escape from the Country

 

A group of 20 somethings are dumped on the North Yorkshire Moors with no mobile phone and only a £10 note and the first person to make it back to the studio (in London (or Leeds if you are kind) is the winner

 

I think BBC3

I could go one better, how about make them a bunch of posh hipster kids only dump them somewhere like Sudan, see how they cope without mummy and daddy to bail them out 

[time 8,611]

I vaguely remember a programme a few years ago where 'posh' families had to swap with 'poor' families and live each other's lifestyles for a while (possibly on holiday - the 'poor' family went to Val d'Isere or the Virgin Islands and the 'posh' family went to Pontins or had a couple of weeks in a caravan - something along those lines).

 

I'd reboot it but instead of random posh families, various members of the cabinet would swap places with those on the breadline and they'd live each other's lifestyles.

 

They wouldn't swap back after a fortnight though.

[JR976evil 906]

Personally I’d be happy to settle for a show that actually credits the viewer with some intelligence rather than clumsily and clunkily signposting everything as tho they are total morons who need to be constantly spoon fed. The obsession with diversity quotas nowadays in particular, where characters of every conceivable minority are gratuitously shoe-horned into prominent roles is especially patronising (fascist box-ticking as Mike Leigh put it recently) 

[gcreptile 10,976]

I've always liked this idea:

[Toast 16,141]

The credits.

[JR976evil 906]

4 hours ago, Toast said:

The credits.

You hate squashed credits too? I think whomever devised the idea should meet the same fate as Joe Pesci and his bro in Casino fucking despise them with a passion 

[The Great Cornholio 902]

A show like Big Brother, same sort of rules etc...

 

HOWEVER

 

All contestants are political extremists - and all contestants views oppose one another. For example, there will be the white supremacist,  an anarchist, a radical feminist, a radical Christian preacher who hates gays, an Islamic terrorist, a communist, a Qanon conspiracy theorist that lives in constant fear and believes everything he/she is told, a radical gay rights activist who believes gay people are supreme to others, a militant BLM member and an incel are all put in a house in an effort of tolerating each other. Every week one person is eliminated in the same process as they would Big Brother. However, if there is a fight then they televise it and winner is determined by submission or knockout. A referee will run into the house every time someone kicks off. It'll be a great opportunity for political discourse and a great fucking fight and people will love it.

[Toast 16,141]

1 hour ago, JR976evil said:

You hate squashed credits too? I think whomever devised the idea should meet the same fate as Joe Pesci and his bro in Casino fucking despise them with a passion 

 

And streaming - when they have another programme lined up to start, whether you want to watch it or not, and the credits are sent up into the corner.  There is not enough time to navigate to the new spot and hit pause, so you always miss at least one frame of credits.

[JR976evil 906]

6 hours ago, Toast said:

 

And streaming - when they have another programme lined up to start, whether you want to watch it or not, and the credits are sent up into the corner.  There is not enough time to navigate to the new spot and hit pause, so you always miss at least one frame of credits.

Yep, I always think it’s hugely disrespectful to all the people who’ve contributed to what you’ve just watched that they’re basically denied having acknowledgment through this 

[JR976evil 906]

6 hours ago, Kenny McCormick said:

A show like Big Brother, same sort of rules etc...

 

HOWEVER

 

All contestants are political extremists - and all contestants views oppose one another. For example, there will be the white supremacist,  an anarchist, a radical feminist, a radical Christian preacher who hates gays, an Islamic terrorist, a communist, a Qanon conspiracy theorist that lives in constant fear and believes everything he/she is told, a radical gay rights activist who believes gay people are supreme to others, a militant BLM member and an incel are all put in a house in an effort of tolerating each other. Every week one person is eliminated in the same process as they would Big Brother. However, if there is a fight then they televise it and winner is determined by submission or knockout. A referee will run into the house every time someone kicks off. It'll be a great opportunity for political discourse and a great fucking fight and people will love it.

Isn’t that just basically what occurs on social media daily??? 

[Toast 16,141]

4 hours ago, JR976evil said:

Yep, I always think it’s hugely disrespectful to all the people who’ve contributed to what you’ve just watched that they’re basically denied having acknowledgment through this 

 

Not only that, we are denied the experience of listening to the closing music, which is often part of the drama.  Such as The Handmaid's Tale and Game Of Thrones, which always close with something chosen especially for that episode.

 

[JR976evil 906]

2 hours ago, Toast said:

 

Not only that, we are denied the experience of listening to the closing music, which is often part of the drama.  Such as The Handmaid's Tale and Game Of Thrones, which always close with something chosen especially for that episode.

 

That always thoroughly pissed me off when E4 showed the Sopranos, you’d be enjoying the music and then the continuity announcer would talk over it plugging some other show that I couldn’t give two shits about. I don’t need the fucking announcer to tell me what else is on, I buy a TV listings magazine for that!!! 

[time 8,611]

13 hours ago, Toast said:

 

And streaming - when they have another programme lined up to start, whether you want to watch it or not, and the credits are sent up into the corner.  There is not enough time to navigate to the new spot and hit pause, so you always miss at least one frame of credits.

Also with streaming, you miss any post-credit scene as it automatically starts the next episode before the credits finish. (The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret had post-credit scenes which I didn't discover until I'd missed most of them).

[The Great Cornholio 902]

On 08/01/2022 at 08:56, JR976evil said:

Isn’t that just basically what occurs on social media daily??? 

Sort of, except I don't class people who support Trump or Bernie Sanders extreme, or at least not as extreme as say a skinhead and a full blown feminazi. This wont be Twitter, this will be physically in the room. Plus Twitter has restrictions over what people say, this show wont  - the sky is the limit when it comes to the outrageous shit you can say on this show. The only thing I'd say, as the hypothetical director, is no peedophiles on the show as they will just instantly get murdered on the first day and that'll just make the show too predictable for the viewers at home